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characterized by high degrees of time pressure affects individuals' self-selection. At this aim we run a lab-in-the-field experiment … structured in two parts. The first part investigates individual characteristics that affect performance under time pressure …, while the second is devoted to analyze how the decision to work under time pressure is affected by the reward …
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ozone precursors and not when these emissions occur. Using hourly data on ambient ozone from 1980-2017 near the U.S. time … zone borders, we provide evidence that the 1-hour time difference on either side of a border leads to a nontrivial change … shifting when these emissions occurred. We conclude by outlining a possible policy solution to account for the time value of …
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The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also...
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Instruction time varies among schools, subjects, pupils and grades. This variation is positively associated with test … administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of … Danish children, and find positive marginal hours effects on 9th grade test scores using accumulated time which are twice as …
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the years spent in retirement, suggesting that adjustment may take time. We find evidence of heterogeneous effects by … gender and across different patterns of time use prior to retirement (i.e., working long hours, and combined work and out … in the opportunity cost of time faced by individuals when they retire …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between commuting time and sick-day absence of US workers. Using data from the … determining how commuting time is related to sickness absenteeism, we shed light on the relationship between commuting behavior …
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of a foreign subsidiary located just across the time zone line that increases the overlap in working hours with its …. The findings suggest that lower barriers to real-time communication within the multinational corporation play an important …
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the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school … data.Results show the beneficial effects on children's behaviour of sports, school-related activities, time with parents … and household chores, while a small detrimental effect of video-screen time is detected. We test the robustness of our …
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We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students … from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a standard scheme without time pressure and an … alternative scheme consisting of two written intermediate tests, one of which to be taken under time pressure. Both exam schemes …
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. Specifically, we administer an at-home sleep restriction protocol combined with random assignment to the time-of-day for decision … making. Thus, we induce sleepiness in our subjects via sleep restriction as well as suboptimal time-of-day prior to …
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